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Special Weather Statement, NWS Salt Lake City, UT

January 5, 20216 counties in Utah

NWS Salt Lake City, UT issued this special weather statement at Jan 5, 2021, 12:08 AM MST for 6 counties in Utah. It was in force for 82 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jan 5, 2021, 12:08 AM MST (07:08 UTC)
Expired
Jan 5, 2021, 1:30 AM MST
In force
82 min
Issued by
NWS Salt Lake City, UT

Counties Box Elder County, UT, Cache County, UT, Davis County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Tooele County, UT, Weber County, UT

The radar

The Salt Lake City radar (KMTX), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2021-01-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 00:00Z on 2021-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

981 
WWUS85 KSLC 050708
SPSSLC

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Salt Lake City UT
1208 AM MST Tue Jan 5 2021
 
UTZ001>008-050830-
Wasatch Mountains South of I-80 UT-Wasatch Mountain Valleys UT-
Cache Valley/Utah Portion UT-Wasatch Mountains I-80 North UT-
Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains UT-Southern Wasatch Front UT-
Northern Wasatch Front UT-Salt Lake and Tooele Valleys UT-
1208 AM MST Tue Jan 5 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEBER...WESTERN CACHE...CENTRAL
BOX ELDER...SALT LAKE...DAVIS...WEST CENTRAL MORGAN...NORTHWESTERN
UTAH AND CENTRAL TOOELE COUNTIES UNTIL 130 AM MST...

At 1201 AM MST, National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a 
band of heavy snow along a fast moving cold front, extending from 
Park Valley to Knolls to Fish Springs Wildlife refuge. This band is 
moving east at 40 mph, and will across the Wasatch Front around 1 
AM. 

A burst of heavy snow along with winds to near 40 mph will be 
possible as this band crosses the area, which may result in rapid 
snow accumulation across area roadways, particularly mountain routes 
such as Parleys, Weber, and Logan Canyons.  

Locations impacted include...
Salt Lake City, West Valley City, Sandy, Ogden, Layton, Logan,
Murray, Bountiful, Tooele, Farmington, Brigham City, Grantsville,
Tremonton, Snowville, Hill Air Force Base, Dugway English Village,
Cache, West Jordan, Taylorsville and South Jordan.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 15 between mile markers 276 and 398.
 Interstate 84 between mile markers 4 and 97.
 Interstate 80 in Utah between mile markers 34 and 130.
 US Route 89 between mile markers 459 and 463.
 Utah Route 30 between mile markers 61 and 90.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Be prepared for rapid onset of winter driving conditions across all 
area roadways. 

&&

LAT...LON 4198 11174 4021 11177 4010 11352 4197 11320
TIME...MOT...LOC 0701Z 257DEG 35KT 4180 11305 4067 11323 

$$

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.